List of SS Personnel - Definition and Overview

Between 1925 and 1945, the German SS grew from a mere 8 members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS members and well over a million members of the Allgemeine-SS. The following list of SS personnel indicates a few of the SS members who were the most famous, influential, and sometimes notorious members of the organization.

Notable SS Officers

Reichsführer

• Heinrich Himmler (Reich Leader of the SS and Chief of German Police)
• Karl Hanke (Last Reich Leader of the SS)

Oberstgruppenführer

• Kurt Daluege (Commander of the Ordnungspolizei)
• Sepp Dietrich (Commander of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler)
• Paul Hausser (Commander of the Das Reich Division)
• Franz Xaver Schwarz (Honorary Rank)

Obergruppenführer

• Gottlob Berger (Commander of the SS-Hauptamt)
• Martin Bormann (Honorary Rank)
• Franz Breithaupt (Commanding General of the SS and Police Courts)
• Theodor Eicke (Commander of the Totenkopf Division)
• Richard Walter Darre (First Commander of the SS Race Office)
• August Heissmeyer (Commander of teh SS Education Department)
• Maximilin von Herff (Commander of the SS Personnel Department)
• Reinhard Heydrich (Chief of the RSHA)
• Rudolf Hess (Honorary Rank)
• Ulrich Greifelt (Reich Commissioner for the Strengthening of Germanism)
• Friedrich Jecklen (Higher SS and Police Leader of Eastern Russia)
• Han Jüttner (Commander of the SS-Führungshauptamt)
• Ernst Kaltenbrunner (Second Commander of the RSHA)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger (Higher SS and Police Leader of Poland)
• Werner Lorenz: Commander of the Office of Ethnic Germanization
• Artur Phleps: Romanian born SS General, Commander of the Prinz Eugene Waffen-SS Division
• Oswald Pohl (Commander of the SS Economics and Administration Office)
• Joachim von Ribbentrop (Honorary Rank)
• Paul Scharfe (First Commander of the SS Legal Office)
• Arthur Seyss-Inquart (Commander of the Austrian SS, Deputy Governor General of Poland)
• Karl Wolff (Chief of Staff to Heinrich Himmler and Supreme SS and Police Leader of Italy)

Gruppenführer

• Odilo Globocnik (Higher SS and Police Leader of the Adriatic Region)
• Richard Glücks (Inspector of Concentration Camps)
• Heinrich Muller (Commander of the Gestapo)
• Artur Nebe (Commander of the Kriminalpolizei)
• Otto Ohlendorf (Commander of the Inland-SD)
• Jürgen Stroop (SS and Police Leader of Warsaw)

Brigadeführer

• Heinz Jost (SD Commander and Commander of Einsatzkommando A)
• Walter Schellenberg (Commander of the Ausland-SD)

Oberführer

• Rudolf Diels (First Commander of the Gestapo)
• Emil Maurice (SS Member #2, credited with founding the SS)
• Julian Scherner (SS and Police Leader of Krakow)

Standartenführer

• Jakob Grimminger (Leader of Standarten 1 and Bearer of the Blutfahne)
• Rudolf Lange (SD Commander of Latvia, Commander Einsatzkommando A-2, Participant of Wannsee Conference)

Obersturmbannführer

• Adolf Eichmann (Head of the Jewish Department of the Gestapo)
• Rudolf Hoss (Commander of Auschwitz Concentration Camp)
• Herbert Kappler (Commander of SS and Police Forces in Rome, Italy)
• Joachim Peiper (Leibstandarte Regimental Commander)
• Richard Schulze AKA Richard Schulze-Kossens (Commander of SS Officer School Bad Tölz)

Sturmbannführer

• Wernher von Braun (Allgemeine-SS Battalion Officer)
• Alfred Naujocks (SD Commando, Gleiwitz Strike Leader)
• Otto Skorzeny (RSHA Commando Leader)

Hauptsturmführer

• Klaus Barbie (Head of the Gestapo in Lyons)
• Amon Göth (Commander of the Plaszow Labor Camp)
• Josef Mengele (Chief Medical Officer of Auschwitz)

Untersturmführer

• Benson Freeman (British Defector and SS Propagana Officer)

Notable SS Enlisted

Sturmscharführer

• Gustav Wagner (Head SS-NCO of Sobibor Concentration Camp)

Oberscharführer

• Eric Muhsfeldt (Senior NCO of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando)

Schütze

• Eric Pleasants (British Defector and member of the SS British Freikorps)

See also

• SS rank
• SS unit insignia
• Orpo rank